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White Quotes
Honest reflections on identity and race.
This collection gathers personal reflections on racial identity, including memories of growing up in a mostly separate community and the ongoing search for roles that were written with a different actor in mind. It connects to broader conversations in our Black quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Be Yourself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in Hollywood defer to what they know, which is a white lead, particularly in romantic comedies.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.
- Grow Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Sons' was about working class white guys. And even though I didn't grow up in a motorcycle club, I grew up in a working-class, white-guy neighborhood.
- Walk
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- Nov 07, 2020
What was incredible about the Maldives was that the entire island we were on consisted of sand. There didn't seem to be any dirt. You could walk around for hours barefoot with your white trousers skimming the ground, and they'd still be pristine white.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can we even call this a Democracy when the House, the Senate, the White House, and now the Supreme Court are all controlled by the representatives of a minority group in America?
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I grew up, you know, in the ghetto, like, and I wasn't taught any other way to talk or a way to act or other food to eat or just like anything like that, like, when I'm I supposed to do? You know, like, is there a class I'm supposed to take to learn how to be white, you know?
- Dash
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both Kennedy and Obama exuded a dash of glamour in their roles as commander-in-chief and became the darlings of Hollywood. As president, each brought to the White House a fashionable and accomplished First Lady, two adorable young children and scene-stealing pets.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
White women are themselves oppressed and that they would therefore be able to align themselves with other oppressed people.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really loved to sing all the time, and I was constantly entertaining. Finally, my dad saw an article in the local newspaper in Phoenix, and it was for a children's theater, an audition for 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the coding movement continues to grow, the common narrative of the white male geek as the predominant influencer on geek culture will erode.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020